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Robot Makers Say World Cup Will Be Theirs By 2050
mindpixel writes "The Scotsman is reporting that the Japanese are very confident they can build a robotic team that will win the World Cup by 2050 using a descendent of the 38cm tall VisiON which operates completely independently of human input, making its own decisions based on information that it perceives with its 360 degree vision, and is able to recognise the football, approach it and deliver a hefty kick. It is also able to identify an opponent and shield the ball in much the same way as a human player does."
If only soccer was as easy as a bit of shielding and hefty kicking !
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Pampered multi millionaire footballers won't even step foot on a field if other players have slightly hard shin guards, let alone legs made of titianium!
It's a foot and a half (38cm) tall and weighs five pounds (2.4kg)! I'm no physicist, but I can imagine what would happen.
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Yet another product release by the Snake Oil corporation otherwise known as AI.
Content-free statements like the 2050 press release is what gives AI a bad name. Serious AI researchers would be well advised to ostracized people who make such half hazardly statements, yet they seem to embrace them: the overly (and misguidedly) ambitious robot soccer competition is part of the main conference in the field (IJCAI).
I'm sorry, but the "3 rules of robotics" are just some do-gooder blabbing that no one cares about the slightest.
In fact, military purposes are one of key fields for robots.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
People dont seem to GET the challenges of AI, hell, getting a freakign robot to WALK took us DECADES. Now they want them to play soccer? This is flying cars all over again.
I, for one, welcome our new soccer-playing robot overlords.
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Well, I would ask you at what point a robot is equal to a person. I mean in theory if you took a computer right now and simulated an entire real brain (real simulation talking here, I assume atom level up will do it but I may be wrong) you'll have something that is just as much thinking as anyone else, and certainly has no less consciousness, just people will demean it because they know an easy way to pull the plug. Of course if one day that's you, you may not want them to pull it.
So yeah, if someone programs something to say "I don't want to be a slave", it's meaningless. Then again if your superultratron vacuum cleaner starts painting abstract landscapes and dreams of visiting London, that's different. It's quite unlikely we'll be letting vacuum cleaners get that far.. well then again look at cell phones.
Curious... if there are no/low casualties resulting from this politically-correct warfare, how, exactly, will that lead to extinction? We can't have "safe" wars, because it would be too dangerous? I'm confused...
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Well I disagree with you on that one. Robotic soldiers would result in more death, not less. Robotic soldiers would allow rich countries to wage war much more freely, as there would be no body bags coming home, and much less public resistance towards the war. This would result in more wars, with more civilian casulties, all be it fewer deaths of invading soldiers since they would mostly be robotic.
hydraulic jack which will win the weighlifting competition. And my Honda will win the marathon.
Apples and oranges, peeps. Sure, it's interesting, having robots and stuff. But this fetish about machine/human competition misses a big point, and is just plain dumb.
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Now they want them to play soccer? This is flying cars all over again.
Psst... they already do play soccer:
http://www.robocup.org/02.html
What exactly is the point of war if people don't die?
It's not just the soldiers that die. The US invasion and occupation of Iraq, ordered by George Bush, killed 10,000 to 100,000 civilians.
If he were the leader of almost any other country, he'd be in the dock at the Hague awaiting a War Crimes trial.